computer architecture In computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, t ...

a locale is an abstraction of the concept of a localized set of hardware resources which are close enough to enjoy uniform memory access. For instance, on a

computer cluster A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system. Unlike grid computers, computer clusters have each node set to perform the same task, controlled and scheduled by software. The comp ...

each node may be considered a locale given that there is one instance of the operating system and uniform access to memory for processes running on that node. Similarly, on an SMP system, each node may be defined as a locale. Parallel programming languages such as

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have specific constructs for declaring locales.''Future Information Technology, Part I: 6th International Conference'' edited by James P Park, Laurence T Yang 2011 page 285

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